Oakland, CALIFORNIA 08/06/2001 SUSE Linux provides insights on its virtual storage application: Logical
Volume Management (LVM)
Oakland, CALIFORNIA - August 6, 2001 - Today, SUSE Linux, the international
technology leader and provider of Open Source solutions, presented Logical
Volume Management (LVM), a spearheading Linux solution for storage
management. In a White Paper, SUSE Linux delivers valuable insights on SuSE
Labs developments on how Logical Volume Management (LVM) is the answer to
avoiding any downtime of systems. The achievement is obtained by creating a
layer of abstraction over the storage and allowing vital manipulations
during runtime.
"More than one hundred developers from SUSE Labs work on solutions for
tomorrow. The innovations in connection with the numerous core components of
the Linux operating system are directly implemented in the latest SUSE Linux
versions," remarked Holger Dyroff, Director of Sales, SUSE Inc. in Oakland,
California.
Applications use virtual storage, which is managed by using volume
management software. SUSE labs added the Logical Volume Manager (LVM) to
SUSE Linux and integrated the configuration of LVM into the installation
tools. With the LVM, it is possible to run and administrate a Volume Group
and Logical Volumes while running Linux. The LVM enables logical storage to
move to a different physical location, adding storage space to already
existing Logical Volume(s) without any downtime of the system. If a file
system on the logical volume supports online-resizing (such as ReiserFS on
SUSE Linux), the file system can be resized during runtime, to immediately
use the additional space. The application runs smoothly in the background
that applications and users will not even notice the operation. With the
LVM, it is possible to integrate disks and partitions from completely
different storage subsystems into one Volume Group and can be used in shared
storage clusters. As the LVM configuration is stored on the physical volumes
managed by LVM itself, the system is independent of physical device IDs.
For the white paper about the Logical Volume Management please check:
http://www/suse.de/de/linux/whitepapers/lvm
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